Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:08:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net> Subject: Re: ILOVEYOU Message-ID: <XFMail.000504120825.nicole@unixgirl.com> In-Reply-To: <001701bfb5f6$c3c03880$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>
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"or some gay trojan written"
EXCUSE ME?
Nicole
On 04-May-00 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>> Umm...
>>
>> This was just sent to the list. I guess Window's users may want to watch
>> out...
>
>
> HAHAHHAHAH. I just opened it with my VBScripting disabled, and read the
> code. It's pretty damn funny. Maybe if I get a chance I'll write a
> disinfecter. Doesn't look like it destroys your hard drive, just loads
> itself into the registry, "infects" mIRC's ini file, and mails itself out to
> everyone else. I can see how this would be annoying, and you'd have to
> remove the damn thing by hand, but doesn't seem like it would kill anything.
> It's pretty weak these days. People in the past would have to learn
> assembly language and how to append to an EXE or COM file, load into memory,
> bind interrupts to reinfect, etc. Now it's just some kid with a scripting
> language, or some gay trojan written in Visual Basic 6, that calls deltree
> or something. Sad. Truely sad.
>
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